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From: rissa@chinet.UUCP (Garret and Trish)
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Subject: Re: New Marriage Statistics
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Date: Sun, 12-Oct-86 23:52:03 EDT
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Rex Ballard writes:

>It also looks like someone is comparing apples and oranges.  College educated
>women have access to a higher quality of men, have interests that get them
>involved with other men, and in general "circulate" more.

I've spent ten years working on an assortment of undergraduate and 
graduate degrees and I can't see that the men I met in college
were of "a higher quality" than the ones I've met elsewhere.
This statement strikes me as extremely elitest and self-congratu-
latory.  Attending college has nothing to do with developing outside 
interests, meeting men, or "circulating."

  
>Many less educated women go into fields where they are working with other
>women.

This is certainly a slur on "less educated women" and on women bosses.
And, in any case, so what, unless you are heterosexual and your goal 
in life is to marry your boss.
 

>My guess is also that co-habitation rather than marriage is more common
>among older women due to the low priority of raising children.

This sentence makes no sense, Rex.  


Trisha (is Rex Ballard an AI program, too) O Tuama